Course title
工学基礎実験   [Basic Experiments for Scientific Studies]
Course category Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 14  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 020009
Instructor(s)
村上 尚, 岡本 昭子   [MURAKAMI Hisashi, OKAMOTO Akiko]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Engineering Office   Email address

Course description
This course aims to develop minds for knowledge creation and autonomous learning, and is designed as an introductory course for the Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies. Students will experience different styles of lectures and classes depending on the contents. It consists of two parts.

Part I : Common Introductory Program
In this program that is common to all first-year students, students will learn about our university and think how they would pursue their academic life here. The university history and TUAT principals are described as well as our research activities, with the aim of encouraging students to engage in university study and to understanding the importance of designing their individual university life.

Part II : Faculty-Specific Program
Courses in high schools are designed to make science lectures separately; physics, chemistry, biology, and archeology. In Universities, interdisciplinary studies of those fields are necessary to learn science. This course is designed for you to experience topics of science by conducting experiments, which cover diverse fields including physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, security, and environments. You learn how to develop your specialties with broad views through performing the experiments by own thoughts.
Expected Learning
We expect you all to learn to
(1) To understand the autonomous learning in the University, and be able to design individual's academic life at University from broad perspectives.
(2) Understand principles of the experiments.
(3) Appropriately conduct the experiments from comprehension of purposes and methods of the experiments.
(4) Analyze experimental data and make reasonable conclusions.
(5) Lead scientific discussion from the experimental results.
(6) Write your reports of the above items.

Competency Development:
Initiative and Autonomy, Leadership and Facilitation, Knowledge Creation, Presentation Skills, Mission-Oriented Research and Problem Solving, Academic Ethics
Course schedule
Part I : Common Introductory Program
1. About the University (I)
  Brief history of the University. Talks from the President, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
2. Energy-saving and Safety in university life
Global warming and emission of green house gas. Our effort in reducing CO2 emission.
Risk management in laboratories. You action to ensure own and others' safety. Risks of harmful chemicals and proper ways of their disposal.
3. Studying at the University
  Differences between studying at high school and studying at university. Designing your academic life at the University from broad perspectives.
Questioning minds that lead you to the depth of academic study and research
4. Research ethics
Code of conduct for research integrity, and scientific misconducts. Falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism are discussed.
5. Campus tour to visit the University's facilities
  Students visit the Nature and Science Museum of the University and other facilities.

Part II : Faculty-Specific Program
#6- Experiments
Nucleophilic substitution reaction for Alkyl halides
Environmental analysis ~Inorganic qualitative analysis~
Fabrication of plastic cell
Thin-layer chromatography
DNA analysis and Electrophoresis
Scientific criminal investigation ~Synthesis of fluorophore and observation of luminescence behavior~
Oxidation-reduction titration of vitamin C
Synthesis of acetanilide
Research workshop
Prerequisites
Part I : In addition to 10 hours you spend in the class, you are recommended to review the classes spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class, to plan out the courses to take and design how you would pursue your academic activities ahead.
Part II :Students entering this class are assumed to have had a high school experimental knowledge.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Part I :Handouts and exercise materials are provided during the class
Part II :Experimental text, which can be bought at the first class of the third semester.
References
Part I :
・アカデミック・スキルズ 大学生のための知的技法入門 (慶應義塾大学出版会) 佐藤望(編著)、湯川武、横山千晶、近藤明彦
・思考を鍛える大学の学び入門ー論理的な考え方・書き方からキャリアデザインまで(慶應義塾大学出版会)井下千以子

Part II : Indicated in the textbook
Assessment/Grading
Part I (16%):Marks are given based on worksheets collected at the end of each class.
Part II (84%):Total evaluation of "attitude for experiments", "homework", "reports" and "experiment participation". Details will be explained at the orientation.
Message from instructor(s)
Experiment course is integrated course of science. The registered students should understand backgrounds and theories of each experiment by reading the instruction text and other supplementary materials in prior work, participate in the experiments, and submit reports of the corresponding experiments. Please do not attend the course aimlessly. Your active participation is expected.
Course keywords
Part I :  Questioning mind, Autonomous learning
Office hours
Part I : It will be announced during the class. Part II: During the course hours and just after the course
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
4/15/2019 11:18:47 AM